Publication of: Correspondence Between M. Poincare and British Premier London, May 28, The Foreign Office to-day issued the correspondence: which was exchanged between Mr, Ramsay Donald and M. Poincaré att) middle of the month with refer-fence to the proposed visit of the French Premier to Chequers, which was later cancelled in consequence of French political circumstances The letters were framed in exceedingly cordial terms.
Mr, MacDonald in his first letter, dated Muy 14, asked if, in view of the uncertain political situation then existing, it were not possible to pursue an exploration of the problems arising from the Dawes Report, at least tentatively for the time. time being, his object being to save
M. Poinearé's, reply, dated May 15, definitely declared' the impending resignation of his Cabinet, but expressed the opinion that the' conversations.could quite well continue in a preliminary form.
Ju the meantime, the French Premier had written' a long letter on May 14, which crossed Mr, Mac-Donald's, expressing his belief, from the accounts he had received' from the Belgian Ministers of their conversations with Mr. MacDonald, that there was every ground for hoping that-a final agreement could be reached without difficulty. Poincaré also recapitulated his Government's attitude in respect of the Dawes Report, as already known. "You were good enough to tell 'MIN. Theunis and Hymans that in the-event of a breach of the undertakings contracted by her, Germany would find herself confronted by England, 'Belgium and France in-/Mexibly united as they were during the war: "It seemed: to you to be dificult, however, to-foresee at the present' moment the nature of the guarantees which in such an evenality we might be led to take by common agreement." The letter added that there did not seem to, be any doubt. that Germany was deliberately violating the stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles ai reconstituting her wat material and military formations.—Reuter.
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